public can tolerate until the united states would have to withdraw? if there's a surge, there's probably going to be more u.s. members killed. how much should the public tolerate this? >> i would never want to make that kind of a prediction based on deaths. each one of those deaths is significant. and i would never make a prediction like that. the president is making a critically important decision for the security of this country. he has taken the needed time to do it. he, i'm sure, is under great deal of pressure from the republicans who just every week it seems are attacking him for taking this time. and if he does something less than what they think general mcchrystal is asking for. they would be critical of him, i think again, unless it is part of a larger nato decision where it seems to me that decision of the president would be seen in that larger context and would be more difficult to attack the way i think some republicans, at least are geared up to attack and have already set that unless the president goes with 40,000 combat forces that he s